Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
- I choose “the Road Not Taken”. It is a very famous English poem. I redeem that it has two significant implies; the uncertainty and lonely of life.Firstly, in this poem, the “different path” represents the different way of our life. We usually need to face different ways or objects to choose in our life. Who is the best partner for me? Which school or major is better for me? The different alternatives are similar to “two roads diverged in a yellow wood”. According to the experience in my life, I think the courage, perseverance and luck are the most important means to takes a certain road that is no turning back, such as the “the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear”, Frost said.
- The poem's last lines, where the narrator declares that taking the road "less traveled by" has "made all the difference," can be seen as a declaration of the importance of independence and personal freedom. However, I can smell the lonely from this line. Sometimes, I am lonely when I made unique choice; it is likely to “walk on less traveled road”. But I think the freedom of choice is the most valuable thing for human life even the choice is strange or unusual.
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